“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."”

“Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)”

“habent sua fata libelli”

“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”

“When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.”

“Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anythingof philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only amind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.”

“If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.”